CNN Endorsing Terrorism

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is another one of those proxy-organizations, which are funded by the National Endowment of Democracy. For me that is enough to discredit it.

Alan Weinstein, one of it's founders, perhaps gave the best explanation how the NED works:
"A lot of what we [NED] do was done 25 years ago covertly by the CIA"
www.sourcewatch.org...

Wherever NED operates, shenanigans are going on. The NED wants to bring corporate-friendly forces into power. Forces which are willing to submit to US hegemony, the Worldbank and the IMF. If all this can be done under the fig-leaf of democracy and human rights – fine. But a kleptocratic dictator is preferred to democratic leaders who have only their own nation's and it's people's best interests at heart.

The propaganda the NED and it's proxies use for non-violent and violent uprisings is similar to the propaganda which is used to justify wars:

• The enemy is responsible for the war/violence.
  
  
• The leader of the enemy is a villain who has committed (or is going to commit) heinous deeds
  
  
• We fight for a good cause (freedom, democracy, human rights, stop terror etc)
  
  
• The enemy uses illegal arms and dirty tactics
  
  
• The enemy commits cruelties on purpose (If we do it, it was just a “bad apple” or an accident)
  
  
• Intellectuals, human rights organisations and artists support our cause
  
  
• Our mission is for the greater good (in earlier times a holy cause)
  
  
• Our losses are small and support for us is great, we are winning. The losses of the enemy are enormous and he has little support
  
  
• Those, who doubt our coverage are either traitors who support our enemies, or they are conspiracy theorists or they have nor heart
  

Since in such situations both sides tend to lie, it is very difficult to know what is really going on. IMHO, the report of the Arab League is a good source for information. A respectable opinion poll conducted by the Doha Debates shows, that most Syrians are still backing the Assad-regime. The Report of Arab League Observers also has a passage which states, that Syrians don't want any foreign interventions.

Report of Arab League Observers (pdf.)
www.columbia.edu...

Most Syrians back President Assad, but you'd never know from western media
www.guardian.co.uk...

Doha Debates poll
www.thedohadebates.com...

Here is one article I want to recommend to you.

What Is Really Going On In Syria: Insider Update
by Boris Dolgov

In this article Boris Dolgov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, reports on his recent trip to Syria. His field investigation is particularly valuable since most of the information about Syria in recent months has emanated from Beirut, Paris or London. Professor Dolgov confirms that, far from a contrived "Arab Spring" scenario, Syria is undeniably grappling with the threat of foreign occupation. He observes that while the offensive is inordinately violent, the population will not be intimidated. Aware of the disaster wrought by NATO "humanitarian" operations in Yugoslavia and Libya, the Syrians refuse to be drawn into a sectarian ambush. A process of reform and development is on track, but it will not be dictated from abroad. In Syria, one may object to the president, but not to national sovereignty.

www.voltairenet.org...